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GONSTRUUTION OF RAILWAYS.

No. 357,301. Patented Feb. 8 1887.

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PATENT JAMES J. ANDERSON, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,301, dated February 8, 1887. Application filed November 27, 1886. Serial No. 220,069. (No model.)

To alZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES J ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Railways; and I hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

My improvement relates to the laying of the tracks for cars, whether moved by steam,horse,

or other power, and it relates more particularly to the rail-chair and tie-bar which I emthe chair and of the tie-bar, as also in combinations of parts,v all as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation of a street-car track laid with the use of my improvement and showing the tie-bar broken away toward its center; Fig. 2, a similar view showing my improvement applied to a cable road; Fig. 3, a perspective view of a detail; Fig. 4, a similar view of my improved track-chair, minus the removable clip detail; Fig. 5, a similar view of the removable clip; Fig. 6, a perspective view of the chair as shown in Fig. 4, but slightly modified; Fig. 7, a similar view of the clip modified to be adjusted to the modification shown in Fig. 6; Fig. 8, a section taken on the line 8 of Fig. 7 and viewed in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 9, an end elevation of the chair without the clip, show ing a further modified construction; Fig. 10, a similar view of the modified form of clip to be applied, as indicated by dotted lines, to the device constructed as shown in Fig. 9; Fig. 11, a perspective view of the clip having a further modified form; and Fig. 12, a side elevation of the chair, displaying the side not presented in the perspective view in Figs. 4 and 6.

My improved means of construction are illustrated as applied only to street-car tracks, both to a cable-car track and to the more common form of track comprising parallel rails held together by tie-bars; but they are equally applicablein the construction of steam-car tracks, although the present description is confined, for the sake of convenience, to the application of my improvement to the tracks for streetcars.

A is the chair, comprising as integral parts the base B, having bolt-holes 1*, web 0, head D, and strengthening web F. The head D has a horizontal base, q, provided with a flange, p, on one edge, and affords a socket or recess for one side of the rail-flange, and the base g has a transverse recess, 0, extending through the web 0 and ending on the side of the base q unprovided with an integral flange, p, in a bolt recess, a, and is beveled along its lower edge, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, underneath the recess n. Within the recess 0, to the inner side of the line of the web 0, is a lug; m.

To lay the track, the chairs A, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, or 6, for one rail, Z, or side of the track, are bolted, with the backs of the flanges pfacing inward, in line the desired distance apart upon the foundation provided to support them-in cable tracks upon the yokes G, as shown in Fig. 2, and in the more common form of horse-car tracks, as shown in Fig. 1, to the sleepers, stringers not being required with my improvementsuntil a desired number have been placed, when, for the form of track illustrated in Fig. 1, corresponding chairs are placed for the parallel rail Z, each being tied as it is so placed, and before bolting it down to the chair directly opposite it, by means of the tie-bar H, which is a rectangular bar having near opposite ends in one edge rectangular recesses, k, (only one of which is shown in Fig. 1, though the end of the tie-bar which is not disclosed is exactly like the one presented to view,) to fit over the lugs m in the recesses 0 of the opposite chairs, the tiebar being first inserted at one end into the recess 0 of the fixed or bolted chair and caught at the recess k on the lug In therein, and then in a similar manner at its opposite end into the recess 0 of the opposite unbolted chair, which thereupon is bolted down and secured in its proper position.

It will thus be seen that the chairs, and consequently the rails, are readily laid without requiring the operation to be preceded by laborious gaging, as hitherto practiced.

In the case of a cable track the tie-bar mechanism is somewhat different from that described as for the more common form of track, and involves a keeper, I, (see Figs. 2 and 3.) comprising a cross-head, 1', provided with boltholes h, at which the keeper is bolted to the side of the adjacent angle-bar K, for1ning,wit-h a similar angle-bar, K, the central grip-slot, K, and further comprising a recessed shank, f, containing a button or pin, 9, and provided near the angle with the cross-head with a short cap, 6. These keepers are bolted in the desired number, and at the proper distance apart, to the outer side of each anglebar K and K, and these may be provided with the keepers already secured in position upon them, whereby when the angle-bars are laid the chairs on opposite sides of the parallel tracks may be placed with the keepers as guides or indicators in placing them, tied to the keepers with which they are respectively in line, and bolted down without previous gaging, as aforesaid. The tie-bar for this connection is provided with an aperture or eye, (1, near one end, which is slipped underneath the cap 6 into the recess of the shank f, and

hooked at the eye upon the pin g, and the opposite recessed end 01' the tie-bar,which enters the recess 0 in the chair and fits over the lug m therein, may be slightly bent, if required, as shown in Fig. 2.

The rails are laid by imposing them upon the heads D in a manner to insert the flange on one side of each into the recesses afforded by the flanges p, when they are secured in place by means of clips L, each comprising, preferably, a flange, p, and a body portion having a flaring recess, 0, as shown, and provided with a horizontal bolt-hole, b. The clips L are fitted upon the bases (1 in the manner shown to bring the bolt-holes b coincident with the bolts 1), previously placed in the boltrecesses 21, with their heads a in enlarged portions of the recesses 0, where they, as well as the tie-bars, are held down from displacement by the imposed rails, and the clips L are then adjusted at their bolt-holes upon the bolts b, when the nuts a are adjusted to tighten the bolts, thereby wedging the clips into position against the side of the rail flange or flanges which they hold. By this construction each clip L is secured with sufficient firmness for the'desired purpose of firmly holding down the rail-flange against which it is wedged by a single bolt, and in the cable-track construction but three bolts are required for each chair and tie-bartwo for the latter and one for the elip-while in other constructions, wherein a clip, or rather an angle-bar, is used in connection with a chair, but fastened in position by vertical bolts, four bolts and five cotter pins or wedges are required for each chair and tiebar. As the cotter pins or wedges must be forged by hand, a construction not requiring .them materially lessens expense.

The purpose of the clip being, broadly, to afford an element of the chair which is not integral therewith, so that the rails can be readily placed in position and then secured by bolting the clips into place, and to afford a construction of clip whereby the tighter it is bolted by turning the nut a the lighter the flange of the rail under the clip will be wedged and held down upon its seat, it will readily be understood that the wedging effect, which is a most important feature of my invention, may be produced by providing suitable wedgeshaped cars, at, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, on the opposite ends of the horizontal base (1 and upon the corresponding ends of the clip L, whereby the latter may be wedged into position by adjusting it, with the beveled surfaces of the ears a: thereon, underneath those on the base q,- also, that the recess a need be flaring on its upper side only to correspond with the rail-flange, when the bevel at the under edge of the base q, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, would be dispensed with, as shown in Figs. 9and 10, and in none of the constructions is the flange p of the clip indispensable; but it may be omitted, as shown in Fig. 11, as also the base of the recess 0, where a head, 1), is provided, to leave only an angle portion of the body portion of the clip, though this last-named construction is considered to be the least desirable.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a track-chair, the combination of the head D, comprising a transversely-recessed base, q, provided with a flange, p, and a clip; L, having a recess, a, beveled on its upper side and provided with a horizontal opening, b, to coincide with the transverse recess in the base q, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a track-chair, the combination of the head D, comprising a transversely-recessed base, (1, provided with a flange, p, and a clip, L, having a recess, 0, beveled on its upper side and provided with a horizontal opening, I), and a flange, 12, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a track-chair, the combination of a head, D, comprising a transversely-recessed base, q, provided with a flange, p, and beveled, substantially as described, and a clip, L, having a recess, 0, beveled on its upper surface to correspond with the bevel of the base q, a horizontal opening, I), and a flange, 12, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A track-chair comprising, in combination, a base, B, web 0, head D, composed of a base,.q, having a transverse recess, 0, boltrecess a, and flange p, and beveled, substantially as described, a lug, m, in the recess 0, and a clip, L, having a recess, a, beveled on its upper surface to correspond with the bevel of the base q, a horizontal opening, I),

and a flange, 10, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination of atrack-chair, A, having a head, D, comprising a base, q, having recesses o and n, and a flange, p, a lug, m, in the recess 0, and a clip, L, having a recess, a,

beveled on its upper side and provided with ing, 12, and a flange, p, and a tie-bar, H, having a recess, 70, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. The combination, with atraok-chair, of a tie-bar, H, recessed near one end, and a keeper,

I, to receive the opposite end of the tie-bar,

and by which to secure said oppositeend in position, substantially as described. 8. The combination, with atrack-chair, of a tie-bar, H, recessed near one end and having an opening, d, near'its opposite end, and a keeper, I, comprising a cross-head, d, recessed shank f, pin and cap 6, to receive the end of the tie-bar having the opening d, and by which to secure it in place, substantially as described.

9. The combination, with the part K of a car-track, of a keeper, 1, comprising a crosshead, 13, recessed shank f, pin 9, and cap 6, a tie-bar, H, having an opening d, near one end, and a recess, it, near its opposite end, and a track-chair comprising a base, 13, web 0, head D, composed of a base, q, having a transverse recess, 0, bolt-recess n, and flange p, and beveled, substantially as described, a lug, m, in the recess 0, and a clip, L, having a recess, 0, beveled on its upper side to correspond withthe'bevel of the base q, a hori' zontal opening, I), and a flange, p, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES J. ANDERSON.

In presence of- FRANK L. DOUGLAS, J. W.DYRENFORTH. 

